Medium may refer to:

Aircraft

  • Medium bomber, a class of warplane
  • Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • The Medium (1921 film), a German silent film
  • The Medium (1951 film), a film version of the opera directed by Menotti
  • The Medium (1960 film), an Australian television play
  • The Medium (1992 film), an English film from Singapore
  • The Medium (2021 film), a Thai film
  • Medium, a series of Indian comedy-drama films
  • Hindi Medium, 2017 film by Saket Chaudhary
  • Angrezi Medium (English Medium), 2020 film by Homi Adajania

Publications

  • Medium (website), an online publishing platform

Student Periodicals

  • The Medium (Rutgers), an entertainment weekly at Rutgers University
  • The Medium (University of Toronto Mississauga), a student newspaper at the University of Toronto Mississauga

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • List of art media (plural: media), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work
  • Medium (band), an American rock band
  • Medium (TV series), an American television series starring Patricia Arquette about a medium (psychic intermediary) working as a consultant for a district attorney's office
  • Medium Productions, a record label
  • The Medium, a 1946 opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti
  • The Medium (video game), a 2021 psychological horror video game developed by Bloober Team.

People

  • Tau (rapper) (born 1986), Polish rapper formerly known as "Medium"

Science and technology

Astronomy

  • Interplanetary medium, material that fills the Solar System
  • Interstellar medium, the matter and energy between a galaxy's stars

Communication

  • Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
  • Medium of instruction, a language or other tool used to educate, train, or instruct

Wave physics

  • Transmission medium, in physics and telecommunications, any material substance which can propagate waves or energy
  • Active laser medium (also called gain medium or lasing medium), a quantum system that allows amplification of power (gain) of waves passing through (usually by stimulated emission)
  • Optical medium, in physics, a material through which electromagnetic waves propagate
  • Excitable medium, a non-linear dynamic system which has the capacity to propagate a wave

Other uses in science and technology

  • Data storage medium, a storage container in computing
  • Growth medium (or culture medium), in biotechnology, an object in which microorganisms or cells experience growth
  • Porous medium, in engineering and earth sciences, a material that allows fluid to pass through it, such as sand

Other uses

  • Medium, a doneness (gradation of cooked meat)
  • Medium, a practitioner of mediumship, the practice of purportedly mediating communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings
  • Medium pace bowling, another name for fast bowling in the sport of cricket

See also

  • Channel (disambiguation)
  • Conduit (disambiguation)
  • Media (disambiguation)
  • Median (disambiguation)
  • Meidum, a pyramid in Egypt